Decisive battle looming as Chinese counteractions slow Japanese
Chinese counterattacks put Japanese forces on the defensive along the Tientsin Pukow line north of Nanking and in the Hangchow region. Chinese claim Tsining is entirely in their hands and warn a decisive battle is imminent while heavy fighting rages near Langchow.
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Suchow
Lungbai
China
Tientsin-Pukow
Tsinan
Shantung Province
Shantung
Tsining
Tsivan
Langchow
Japs Blow Up Dummy Planes at Chinese Airfields
An American aviation mechanic nicknamed Alabama says Japanese bombers have been destroying many Chinese planes by striking wooden dummy aircraft placed in fields at night. He reports Chinese carpenters build the dummies to resemble airfields, fooling Japanese pilots who then blow them up.
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Nanchang
China
County Home Report Filed in Charleston
The annual Board of Trustees report shows Bellevue County Home costs for 1987 at 16 795.24 with cash on hand 1 34.17 and explains a 587 03 decrease from 1938’s total 21 576 89 due to improved operations including hog raising and more extensive vegetable growing for meals. Receipts in 1927 totaled 16 792 26 with county tax funds contributing.
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Bellevue
Board of Trustees
Board of County Commissioners
Stees
Board of Commissioners
Socialists Back Chautemps in bid to form cabinet
Paris January 18. Camille Chautemps moved to form a new government with Radical Socialist backing after a five day cabinet crisis. Socialists demanded communal inclusion and offered votes in the Chamber under a peasants alliance. Daladier to lead national defense Delbos to head foreign affairs. The dollar rate opened firm near 29.90 francs.
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Paris
Camille Chautemps
Mark Dormoy
Chautemps
Socialist Council
Chamber of Deputies
People's Front
Matignon Palace
Socialista
Georges Bonnet
Edouard Daladier
Yvon Delbos
France
Confesses to Slaying Pair in Long Island Case
John Reo, 55, confessed to killing Mrs. Lotida Waite, 59, and neighbor Jeanine Schiellain, 19, in Elmont after 26 hours of questioning. Reo, a former boarder and relative of Waite, was charged with first degree murder. the victims were found shot and bound in Waite’s home. The case, termed motive-less, followed threats directed at Waite and her son by Reo on Thanksgiving Day.
Japanese Ambassador Kawagoe Ordered Home from China
Tokyo reports the government has instructed ambassador Shige Ta Kawagoe to return to Japan. Dome News Agency confirms the action amid rising tensions with China.
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Tokyo
China
Shige- Ta Kawagoe
Dome
Weather Outlook for Maryland and Chesapeake Bay
Maryland will see cloudy tonight and Wednesday with slightly colder temperatures. Northern areas may rise slowly on Wednesday as fresh northerly winds develop across the Chesapeake Bay region.
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Maryland
Claudy
Wight
Chesapeake Bay
Unemployment Figures Across City and State
A national unemployment census reports 1,444 unemployed in the city with 375 employed by WPA NYA COC and 1,219 partly employed. County figures total 2,600. Maryland unemployment is 22 percent lower than the national average.
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Todd
Tlagrratown
WPA
NYA
COC
Enr
Iincsides Iis
Maryland
Below Zero in Satan's Kingdom Sets Cold Winter Mark
Satan's Kingdom Conn Jan 18 reported eight degrees below Berg as the coldest reading yet this winter in the region and among the coldest in the state though unofficial.
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Satan's Kingdom
Conn
Berg
30 Below In New England
Boston reported record cold as temperatures plunged to 20 degrees below zero in places after a seven inch snowstorm. Officials warned the cold would persist with Boston readings near zero nightly. Montpelier and Norfield registered extreme lows, marking Boston's coldest day in 34 years and Vermont’s coldest since 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England
G_ Tarold Noyes
Boston Weather Bureau
U. S
Union Plans Discipline at General Motors Pact Talks
The United Auto Workers and General Motors prepared to renew contract talks with a pledge against unauthorized strikes. The UAW’s international board announced an irrevocable commitment to discipline members causing strikes, a sticking point in weeks of negotiations over contract revisions. Knudsen of GM had deemed further talks about revisions futile, as Homer Martin and leaders opted for a decisive stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
United Admpabile Workers of America
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Knudsen
Homer Martin Sod
Navy Plans 18-Plane Flight to Hawaii From San Diego
United States Navy fliers launch an 18-plane mass flight from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, a record trans-ocean maneuver. The route spans 2,570 miles with crews of seven aboard each twin-motored bomber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
United States Navy
Hawaii
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Seattle
One-Man Fight to End Recession Affects Restaurant
Louis Pappas, who began a solo campaign against bum business by raising wages cutting prices and hiring more staff at his Philadelphia restaurant, reported today that customer volume rose 63 percent over any 15 day period in eight years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Louis Pappas
Iis Resturant
Missing couple hunted after woods search in Swetport area
State police and Sheriff Merle Dickinsonson scoured heavy woods near Clermont, McKean County, for one year old girl and 37 year old man Vandermark and Werence Williams missing since January 19. Residents identified Vandermark from a photo after groceries sighting. Dickinson later paused the search, suspecting they left the district. Williams’s parents sought help. Vandermark is married with two adopted children. A separate derailment near Seth injured Fireman Ray Nunley.
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Sweteport
Pennsylvania
Merle Dicklinson
McKean County
Clermont
Swethsport
Youth Admits Slaying In Exotic Bird Feud
A 20 year old youth confessed to killing itinerant showman Steve Good and bludgeoning his wife in a dispute over an exotic bird. Clarence Fairbanks of Baltimore claimed responsibility after police found Good dead in a truck trailer home near Henderson and Mrs. Good wounded. He was jailed on an investigation charge pending fingerprint comparison in Raleigh.
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Henderson
John Langston
Chierangelow
Clarence Fairbanks
Baltimore
Steve Good
Austin
Tex
Mrs. Good
Langston
Fairbanks
Raleigh
Police Having It Easy Here
Washington police faced 50 crimes in 48 hours with multiple hold ups larcenies housebreakings and assaults reported in dispatches. Hagerstown meanwhile had no crimes or arrests over the last two days. Local records for Sunday and Monday were blank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Hagerstown
National Council Of All Groups To Aid Business Is Proposed
Senate Bulkley proposes a national council to unite intelligent and forward looking elements from business labor agriculture sciences and professional groups to advise Congress and the President. The plan aims for a permanent approach beyond immediate recession measures with broad private sector participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Council of All Groups
Senate
Bulkley
Senate Manufacturers Committee
Etrivens
Rene
Calure
Congress
Fire at Quebec school leaves six dead and 25 missing
In St Hyacinthe Quebec a blaze at the College of the Sacred Heart trapped more than 100 students. Police reported six dead and about 25 missing with 25 or 30 unaccounted for as firefighting lasted over three hours. Firefighters and volunteers battled the flames while private cars ferried bodies and injured to hospitals.
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ST. Hyacinthe
Jay
College of the Sacred Heart
Montreal
Brothers of the Sacred Heart
Que
Here
A. Bourgeois
Guiter
Cal. P. A. Puize
Quebec Provisional Police
St. Hycinthe
Order of the Sacred Heart
Paize
Father Son Go to Chair in Torch Murder Case
Boston inmates Frank Pi Stasio and his son Anthony were executed in the state prison for the torch murder of Danial Crowley, a Boston laborer, in a life insurance plot. It marked Massachusetts first fatally witnessed execution in the electric chair. Rev Ralph W Farrel, prison chaplain, led prayers as the men faced the chair.
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Boston
Frank
Anthony Pi Stasio
Faih Rro
State Prison
Danial Crowley
Massachusetts
Anthony
Charles F. Turkey
Ralph W. Farrel
House Damaged by Fire Near Walnut Point
Fire damaged a house near Walnut Point this morning, thought to start from an overheated stave in a downstairs partition. Williamsport firemen and shbers formed a bucket line and saved the home, arriving after the blaze had gained headway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wailnut Point
Williamsport Fremen
Shbers
Ataira
Airej
Cosens Held in Accident in Fatal Collision
Walter Cosens, 32, of the 600 block West Franklin Street, driver of the car carrying Eugene Colling, 37, who died from injuries early Sunday, January 9, was charged with negligence by a coroner's jury. A warrant for manslaughter was to be issued and a preliminary hearing set. Cosens testified he was driving when his car collided with Richard Henson’s machine at Wilson Boulevard and South Potomac Street. he denied running the boulevard sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Cousens
West Franklin Street
Eugene Colling
Martin L. Ingram
Cosens
Foroner
Harry Ray
Verna
Finck
Virenmie
Lawrence Gill
Farmang
Cosons
Collins
Richard Henson
Wilson Boulevard
South Potomac Street
Strike Continues At Tutsburgh Amid Mediation
Five hundred idle workers and floris producers face a two day old strike as a U S Department of Labor mediator pushes for a deal. Washington reports no definite agreement yet as strike leaders meet with dealers to seek terms. In Moscow, Mrs. Rath Marie Rubens is detained for espionage questions, the Soviet foreign office confirms. A Bulgore oil well fire prompts three rescue crews to suppress the blaze with chemicals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tutsburgh
Department of Labor
Floris
Moffett
Washington
United States
Rath Marie Rubens
Moscow
Anders admits slaying accomplice in Ross kidnapping case
Peter Anders 30, a former logger, confessed to killing Charles S. Ross and his associate James Atwood Gray two days after a $50,000 ransom was paid for Ross near Rockford, Illinois, October 8, 1937. FBI chief J Edgar Hoover announced authorities recovered $14,402.28 of the ransom and seized Anders at Santa Anita Park. Authorities say Ross and Gray bodies have not been found and jurisdiction lies with federal authorities.
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Los Angeles
Department of Justice
Charles S. Ross
Chicago
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Peter Anders
Ross
Rockford
James Atwood Gray
Anders
Hoover
Santa Anita Park
Gray
Hoovers
Nlinois
Santa Anita
Spokane
Seattle
Wash
Porland
Ore
New York City
Philadelphia
Washington, D. C
Street Money Is Released For Hagerstown Road Work
An $88,000 street construction program for Hagerstown moves forward after funds release announced by Harold Seibert WPA supervisor. City Engineering has outlined streets to be worked this winter, with quarry operations along Antietam Creek opening yesterday providing stone and employing about 25 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Harold Seibert
Antietam Creek
Sentenced To Cut On Two Charges In Maryland Court
Samuel Parise 25 was sentenced to six months in the Maryland Case of Correction on two charges for beating his wife and stealing a pair of gloves and a knife. The sentences run concurrently. Luther and Samuel Ewing were arrested at Harper's Ferry on drunken and disorderly conduct and assault. Hearings set for Thursday before Justice Mose at Sharpsburg. Sewer backs up in 100 block Randolph Avenue with water damaging cellars.
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Samuel Parise
Maryland
George D. Flicks
Parise
Luther Ewing
Samuel Ewing
Leister Isanoghe
Harper's Ferry
Thhese Koucklea
Mose
Sharpsburg
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Seth
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Ilastings, Minn
Beatrice Johnke
Brothers of Sacred Heart
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